Sounds good in theory, but players would abuse it to no end I fear.
A player, regardless of PvP or PvE, will always want to have the single most overpowered build possible.
And at the moment that would mean, go, pack as much DPS as possible.
Nearly Every ship would run Commander and LC tac slots, at least one Lt tac, and the rest be engis for survivability.
Some players would build zombie tanks like never seen before.
And don't let me start on the monster sci ships this would make possible. (although only the min/maxers wouldrealize this).
Spell casting inflation would go through the roof... And the game would stop being fun.
WIth all those +1 consoles it already has stopped being fun to some degree.
I have stopped dabbling in PvP for a reason...

To have such one sided builds is bad game design.
The challenge is to overcome the limitations your ship has and utilize the perceived disadvantages.

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LOL, I suppose you're right. Don't see myself going to that extreme, but I guess enough players would that it'd ruin the game.

Just like the players that have all Tac or all Engr away teams. Those just seems boring to me. Almost all my away teams are Engr/Sci/Tac plus the additional BO being the same profession as the character. So Doc Lee's away team is 1 Engr (Fab), 2 Sci and 1 Tac (Sec Off). This has a Sci slant, but it's a good mix and fun to play.

One thing that is still unclear to me and I hope you guys have the answer. Are there going to be 3 Odyssey variants to choose from in the C-Store or is there only one Odyssey in the C-Store that unlock all 3 variants?

Ouch. The only option that makes sense is the 3 ship pack for 4000 c-store points. Good news is my tactical, engineer and science officers are each going to get one ship. Bad news is my current plan of saving up 2,000 points needs to be extended for another month.

It is Cryptic, trying to get the most money out of it.
We could hope that they will reduce the price when sale numbers go down.
But Cryptic doesn't grasp the concept of value loss of older stuff over time, same as the players who cry for a refund every time something goes on sale.
It's a miracle the lifetime sub ever went down in price at all, and that's only because FTP kinda ruined the reasons for getting one in the first place.

Heard on a dev interview that Cryptic's hoping to release a new ship every month. O.o

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That's crazy. They will be just flooding the market. Of course some players will want to own ever ship that's put out.

To be honest, I'm happy with the current ships that are available. The only thing I'd like to see is a carrier or hybrid carrier. Although we never saw any in the shows or movies there is plenty of official gaming material that includes that type of ship.

Heard on a dev interview that Cryptic's hoping to release a new ship every month. O.o

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I'd much rather have a new mission. Hell, I'd even pay for it (Or at least raise the dilithium for it. )

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That would be nice, although I'd imagine missions take longer then ships, what with story writing, scripting, etc. But if it's just one mission, instead of 5 like with the FE's, I suppose they might be able to do it. Wouldn't want to loose the FE's though.

You wouldn't be playing very long. Cut out all that F2P action and it'll get quiet very fast, because I wouldn't pay to play the FE, and neither would many others.

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There's a reason I went technical instead of business...

I'm not saying all the content, just the premium content. But it doesn't matter. Although I don't understand the need to give so much to the F2P players (do other games give this much???), I will probably join their ranks soon. Have to ensure that I have my characters are properly spec'd first though. I've heard that they take away all your bonus respec tokens when you drop to silver.

I for one feel that Admiral level characters should not be in command of 30-40 year old models. At least for cruisers there's the Dreadnought and Odyssey, both of are either brand new or can be considered relatively new in the STO universe's timeline. Not only that, I find it a little unfair that there are now three Tier 5 cruisers but only two escorts and a single Science vessel. And all three ships are just "retrofitted" versions of Tier 4 ships.

Cryptic definitely needs to fill up tier 5 with more escorts and science vessels.